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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<» S, X. Nov. 10. '60. 



of the principles of the well-known and highly-ap- 

 preciated Velvet Cushion, one of the earliest works 

 of the present venerable vicar of Harrow ? 



A Constant Ebaseb. 

 [The New Covering is by the late Dr. John Styles, an 

 Independent minister, formerly of Brighton, and after- 

 wards of Brixton, near London.] 



TURNSTILE ALLEY: NORDEN'S VIEW OP 



LONDON. 



(2°* S. X. 228.) 



The passage from Holborn leading in a straight 

 line to the east side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, was 

 formerly called Turnstile Alley, now Great Turn- 

 stile. Your correspondent has mistaken the lo- 

 cality in calling it Little Turnstile, which is nearer 

 to St. Giles's, and more modern in its erection. 

 These much-frequented thoroughfares, derived 

 their names from the turning stiles, which more 

 than two centuries ago, stood at their respective 

 ends next Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and which were 

 so placed both for the oonveniency of foot pas- 

 sengers, and to prevent the straying of cattle, the 

 fields being at that period used for pasturage. 

 Brayley, in his charming work, Londiniana (ii. 

 136.) mentions two books bearing the name of 

 this locality in their imprints, viz. Sir Edwin 

 Sandys's Europce Speculum, or a View or Survey of 

 the State of Religion in the Western Part of the 

 World, 4to. 1637, " Sold by George Hutton, at 

 the Turning Stile in Holborne ; " and the English 

 translation of Bishop Peter Camus's Admirable 

 EveiUs, 4to. 1639, " Sold in Holborne in Txirn- 

 stile Lane." 



Strype says (anno 1720), " Great Turnstile 

 Alley IS a place inhabited by shoemakers, semp- 

 sters, and milliners, for which it is of considerable 

 trade, and well noted." 



Brayley (writing in 1829), says : — " The pre- 

 sent occupants can hardly be classed, their trades 

 being mostly different, as dealers in cutlery and 

 hardware, butchers, dress, bonnet, and glove- 

 makers, a tobacconist, pastry-cook, fruiterer, &c. 

 Little Turnstile is chiefly inhabited by brokers 

 and petty chandlers. Near to it is New Turnstile, 

 built in 1685, which has recently undergone a 

 thorough repair, and is inhabited by small shop- 

 keepers." 



I have not found any mention of the " Ex- 

 change " in Turnstile Alley, but the notice in the 

 Monthly Miscellany may be depended upon, if it 

 was derived, as I suspect it was, from old Bag- 

 ford. (See Harl. MS. 5900, fol. 546.) John Bag- 

 ford was first a shoemaker, and then a bookseller, 

 in Turnstile Alley. 



Norden's View of London, on eight sheets, had 

 a representation of the Lord Mayor's show, with 

 the figures on horseback, q,nd the alderman jn 



round caps. Bagford says the view was taken 

 from the pitch of the hill towards Dulwich Col- 

 lege, going to Camberwell from London, about 

 1604^ or 1606, and that he had not met with any 

 other of the kind. He adds that he saw it on 

 the staircase of Dulwich College, and that secre- 

 tary Pepys went afterwards to see it, and would 

 have purchased it ; *' but that since it is quite 

 decayed and destroyed by the damp of the wall." 

 It was given to the College with a quantity of 

 old plays and pictures by William Cartwright, the 

 comedian and bookseller. (See Gough's British 

 Topography, i. 747, edit. 1780.) 



Samuel Pepys was at a considerable expense to 

 collect all the prints and drawings that would in 

 any way illustrate London ; which he left with 

 all his other collections and library to Magdalen 

 College, Cambridge, where he was educated. He 

 arranged them in 1700 in two large folio volumes, 

 under the following heads : vol. i. Maps, views, 

 and plans ; buildings, monuments, and churches ; 

 Thames and its views. Vol. ii. Eegalia and habits 

 of the city ; lord mayor's shows ; companies' arms ; 

 Sessions house, Newgate, &c. ; parliament and 

 convocation ; coronation, and public entries ; 

 cavalcades, and triumphal arches ; processions ; 

 habits ; cries ; vulgaria, or miscellaneous articles. 

 Norden's view, unfortunately, is not in this col- 

 lection, nor am I aware of the existence of a 

 single impression. Edwaed F. Rimbault. 



NOUVEAU TESTAMENT, ETC., BOURDEAUX. 1686. 

 (2'"» S. ix. 307. 513. ; X. 331.) 



In reply to your correspondent A. Ikvine (x. 

 331.) I have to say, that I was the purchaser of 

 the Bourdeaux Testament sold at Sharpe's Auc- 

 tion Room, Dublin, in 1833. I bought it for the 

 Right Hon. Thomas Grenville (for 32/. 10*., 

 besides duty and commission), and it is now, with 

 his other books, in the British Museum. 



I still hold to the opinion expressed thirty-three 

 years ago in my " Memoir of a French T^-ansla- 

 tion of the Neio Testament, in which the Mass and 

 Purgatory are found in the Sacred Text ; together 

 with Bishop Kidder's Reflections on the same," 

 London, 1827, 8vo.,* that this is not the transla- 

 tion of the Divines of Louvaine, though it was 

 made to bear their name, perhaps with the view 

 of making it acceptable to the unhappy Protest- 

 ants whom Bossuet was anxious to convert after 

 the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In that 

 tract I gave my reasons for that opinion, drawn 

 from Le Long, Pere Simon, the brochure La 



* This pamphlet was published by Cochrane in the 

 Strand. Nobody bought it. Shortly afterwards, Coch- 

 rane became a bankrupt, and I believe all the copies were 

 " wasted." I have_ not seen one (except my own) for 

 twenty years or mpje. 



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